Kitty Hawk 1/48 UH-1D Huey

[jeaton01]

The wop wop is one thing, but what always kills me is when the pilot throttles back when he's still five feet high in the hover. I still cringe and wait for the crash.

There's a lot of inertia in a Huey rotor system. In the book Chickenhawk by Robert Mason he mentioned they would kill the throttle, pick the Huey up to a 3 foot hover, do a 360 degree turn and set it back down.

I would agree with that, Lee, but that is not the same thing as loss of power at 3 feet. You would be really busy transitioning from a power hover to autororation. The reason it is possible under the curve at low or no airspeed is ground effect and that you don't get going fast enough falling from that low an altitude to wreck things. The Huey is probably one of the best helicopters to have that experience.

Here's the dead man's curve for the Huey. Not much safe space there where the airspeed is low.

[BlackSheep214]

Next month the UH-1D will have its last flight here in Germany. Good bye, Teppichklopfer!

https://www.flugrevue.de/uh-1d-huey-hee ... dbye-huey/

That is a very cool scheme! No doubt either Syhart or Modelmaker will release those decals. Hopefully someone will if not those two.

[Medicman71]

The US Army retired their Hueys around the turn of this century. But the Marines are still flying their updated Twin Hueys... with no replacement in sight! That’s a pretty good long service life span! I’ll bet in civil aviation that they have at least another 50 years left to go!

Well...........the Marines are going to retire a lot of the Twin Hueys and the still new UH-1Y Venoms!!

[Stikpusher]

My understanding is that the Venoms are all rebuilt UH-1Ns. Just like the Zulu Cobras are rebuilds.

[Medicman71]

It's a mix of new build and rebuilt ones.

[Stikpusher]

Ah! Ya learn something new every day

[midnightprowler]

Here is a good photo of the kitty hawk Huey, you can clearly see the orientation of the push pull tubes and scissors.


Here is a real Huey.

[Medicman71]

Leave it to Kitty Hawk to screw things up.

[mostrich]

Though since 4 years on the market, the amount of AM for this kit is pretty scarce.
But there is a lovely resin rotor head from Res/Kit:

[midnightprowler]

A start.